The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-08-27
W. G. I. U. COLUMN.
The Temperance Temple.


The Temperance Temple.
Union Signal.
To THE FRIENDS OF TEMPERANCE:
On tn 18th of July, 1887, the secretary
Of the State Of Illinois issued articles
of incorporation to g company at Chi
cago, to be known as "The Woman's
Temperance Building Association.
with capital stock OF $l0O, 200, shares
800 each. Ineorporators, Matilda b.
Carse, Frances 4. Willard, Esther
Pugh, William Deering and James
Hobbs. The purpose Is to erect build
ing in Chicago worthy the great cause
and grand constituencyof Of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, to be
used as National Headquarters, Tenn
perance Training School and Hall,
which Is to be TO the temperance reform
what Westminster Abby is to Eng
lands great celebrities.
1t Is also meant that this enterprise
shall become source of large revenue
TO the National Society. Tho plan is,
that while the building Is intended in
the first place to furnish headquarters
for the National w. G. L. U., it is also
to be q great Office building. and will
bring in q rental Of 90 lest $lS5, 900 q
year. Ground has been secured for it
in the very center of the city-on Dear
born street opposite the postoflice, with
frontage of 1865 Feet on Dearborn, l25
feet on Quincy and 100 on jackson
street. This noble structure Will cost
at the very lowest esnnate S6OO,OOO,
and to cover this. 100000 worth OF
bonds bearing five percent interess. VIII
be issued about September /, 1857. Il
is expected, however, that the members
of the w. G. Il. u. and friends of tenn
perance all over the country viii contri-
butte in gifts from three t, four hum
dred thousand dollars. This with the
rental will pay off the bonds in a few
years, and the National Society will
then not only have house of its own,
but generous income TO push forward
the grand cause it represents. Look at
the forty lines Of work which have been
developed In the last thirteen years.
many of them almost imperative for
lack of funds. 1t is an absolute neces-
sity, therefore, that o large income
from some source be placed at the COM
mand of the society.
The liquor traffic. that enemy by
which every home In the land is threat
ened, has strongly entrenched itself
both in government and society. and
has billions of money at its back; q
Goliath. Indeed. that has for centuries
defed the armies of the living Sod.
Friends Of temperance and OF Christ
isnity, has not this iniquity continued
long enough ? VIII You net help the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
to destroy this redoubtable enemy Of
the home? We call upon every man
and woman in the nation who would
see this accomplished, to send AT ONCE
ONE DOLLAR TO the national treasurer
Of the w. c. T. u, Miss Esther Pugh,
l0l La Sale street. Chicago. The
names of donors to this fund will be
published weekly in the Union Signal.
Books of record, alphabetically ar
ranged. will also be kept, In which the
names of all who give 70 this fund win
be written these will be placed in the
archives of the Temperance Temple.
and sacredly preserved.
FRANCES K. WILLARD,
MATILDA Ii. CARsE,
Committee.
Powderly on the ssGreat Carse Of the
Laborins Man."
Now, word about the great curse Of
the laboring man strong drink. Had
1O,0OO,00O tongues, and q throat TO
each tongue, l would say to each man,
woman and child here tonight: Throw
strong drink aside as you would an
ounce Of liquid hell" II sears the con-
science, it DESTROYS every thing il
touches, it reaches into the family cir
Gle and takes the wife You have sworn
to protect and drags her down from her
pinacle Of purity into that house from
which no decent woman ever goes alive.
It induces the father to take the fur
niture from his house, exchange 1t for
money at the pawn shop, and spend the
proceeds In rum. Itdamns every thing
| it touches. / have seen IL in every city
east Of the Mississippi, and I know that
the most damning curse to tho laborer
is that which gurgles from the neck Of
the bottle. I.had rather be at the head
Of an organization having 100 600 tenn
perate. honest, earnest men than at the
head Of an organization Of l2.000. .OO(
drinkers, whether moderate or any
other kind.--From his recent Boston
Speech.
The mayor Of Bangor, Me-, says
lyon can as easily run saw-nill with.
out spelling any logs as to run a saloon
without spelling any boys"
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Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine.
The September number Of this wel
come magazine brings together large
number Of pleasant articles combining
instruction and entertainment, and al
breathing forth q high moral spirit
though carefully avoiding the teachins
Of any special religious doctrines
Among the important articles may bt
found one by Walter Edward McCanr
on '.The Rise and Growth Of Our Ma
tional Capital which is fully Illus
trated with portraits and views Of ths
City Of Washington and those who have
made it famous. "The Domesday Bool